"A 'happy-ending' is just a story that hasn't finished yet."

The true warrior is never lured into a false sense of security or
accomplishment. Every battle for a warrior's life is still just one of
many battles in a neverending war. Even when the war is won, peace is
always temporary, and waits to once again be defended through the
paradox of warfare (I say paradox because war is necessary to create
peace).

No empire is lasts forever. They usually grow complacient, and through
the generations, forget that they are vulnerable. This breeds children
less and less willing to die to defend their way of life. These children
are sheep, and warriors are the sheepdogs. And there will always be
wolves waiting just beyond the light of the campfire, for the right time
to strike.

- RT

Penned by my hand on the 11th of Glacian, in the year 394 AF.